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Some Day
Some Day By Paul McCann Some day we are all going to see the light and everything is going be all right there’ll be no more time to loose there’ll be...
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5.2 The Backdrop
A month later, their purchasing officer, Hassan Zahir, took him to Ice Ge – a popular pub in town with a façade finished of painted rocks and a...
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Love Will Bring You Home
Love Will Bring You Home By Paul McCann Come take my hand let me try to understand the way you’re feeling inside Its’ time to command all the...
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Round The Rugged Rock
I don't write much about my 23 years in the blue suit, when you've read this, you'll probably see why. Image is a mock-up, (fake) made from PD elements.
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Trans Europe Express
We only crossed a tiny bit of Europe but in the time it took the train on which we were travelling to get from the city of Gorna Oryahovitsa in...
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Adhrit with threads, sacred
Adhrit with threads, sacred Adihrit! Your ceremonial tale merits your enlightenment to sail across oceans and continents many to reach your USA pals...
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First step
I knew that the road to recovery would be bumpy, but I definitely was not expecting to be not just bumpy, but with hidden land mines, traps, steep...
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They aren’t there!
I look at the hook, and cant believe it’s empty of jingling, jangling keys, Oh please, where did I place them, can memory trace them? when did I use them how could I lose them again? (a slight reworking of a piece in 2013)
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The garden still sings you, the walls still cough you
This was my first ever submission to a literary magazine, and also my first ever rejection. I decided to share it here, untouched. The editor sent me...
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5.1 The Backdrop
“Step back! Step back! I can see them coming!” and the crowd leaned forward to take a look at the bikers racing from the far end. A national guard in...
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Little Things (Excuses)
Old man suddenly realises the error of his domestic ways and apologises...well almost.
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Window Of Light
Dear diary...as Summer Solstice arrives on Wednesday 21 st June 2023, I decided to celebrate with a poem. Softly solstice will arrive, sustain me...
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Another Person's Shoes.
I have heard many times, to try to understand, “What is it like to be in another person’s shoes.” Sometimes that is easier said than done. If I am...
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Amongst The Shadows
The short winter day was giving way to night; the time to hunt would soon be hers to savour. For now, she slunk into the corner of a drinking hovel,...
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Life on Repeat - A Reflection
Friday 17:33 A student sits in the campus bar amidst the throng of other students. She is on her own reading the instructions for her first lesson...
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Ashes
Middle-Age survived rising within stake pyres. I come from fire.
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A Trip to the Supermarket (Tesco’s) After Work! By Mr Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
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Part 3 Time was dragging as well. Alfred felt the loss of free time more keenly at the moment as he was in work which was very much full time at the...
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Carapacic Nights (Insect Dreams)
Not sure what happened here. One minute I was behaving like a pompous poet, next minute I came over all Gothic. Anyway, I read this to my 5-year old Granddaughter as a bedtime story and for some reason her mother's had me issued with a restraining order. There really is no pleasing some people. Though I suppose on the bright side I don't get roped into to anymore last minute babysitting duties.
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